Issues of Western Birds from 1970 to 2004 are now fully
searchable on SORA (the online "Searchable Ornithological Research Archive").
Quickly call up all 32 articles involving the keyword "Washington" from Western Birds, ranging from Terry Wahl's account of a Short-tailed Albatross record in 1970 to Christopher Thompson et al's description of a Long-billed Murrelet record from eastern Washington in 2003.
For those of you not familiar with SORA, this is an amazing resource. In
literally seconds you can search the full text of thousands of scientific
articles from nine leading North American ornithology journals, and can download unlimited numbers of PDFs (or Djvu files) for free. Depending on the journals, articles go back as far as 1884, and forward as far as 2005.
Check it out (but be careful; it's addictive):
Tip offered in Tweeter's newletter by Jay Withgott of Portland, OR